"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self."

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

"There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife."

"'Careful with fire' is good advice we know.'Careful with words' is ten times doubly so."

"When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place."

"MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death."

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

"Saving love doesn't bring any interest."